When Treatment Fails: How Medicine Cares for Dying Children
When Treatment Fails: How Medicine Cares for Dying Children Books
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Medical care of the terminally ill is one of the most emotionally fraught and controversial issues before the broadcast today. As medicine advances and technologies develop, end-of-life care becomes more individualized and uncertain, guided less by science and more by values and beliefs. The crux of the controversy is when to withhold or withdraw curative treatments–when is enough, enough?
Political debates rage about when treatment is no longer effective; trying cases are contested in courts; and the media obsess the most sensational aspects of end-of-life care. In all this excitement and controversy, what is sadly overlooked is the extreme pressure that care of the terminally ill puts on medical staff as they deal with patients and their families and make life-or-death decisions. That pressure–the psychological strain and continuing uncertainties–is magnified when the patients are children.
David Bearison looks at this controversial come forth from the perspective of the medical staff caring for dying children. Not just doctors, but nurses and counselors as well. By capturing their tales–as no other book has, Bearison is able to go beyond broad, abstract thoughts about end-of-life care to convey the situated contexts of such care, including the complications, disagreements, frustrations, confusions, and unexpected setbacks.
In addition to a discussion of questions surrounding whether to withhold or withdraw curative treatments, When Treatment Fails explores the crucial concerns of those medical practitioners who care for dying children: education and training, relation with one another, communicating with patients and families, and finally, coping and tender on. Ultimately, the threads connecting these themes are the fantastic expenditure and rewards of this trying work, and the lessons that can be drawn from the nitty-gritty experiences of medical practitioners who struggle to find the balance between trying to defeat death and trying to provide comfort.
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